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New Electronic Resources Available for Learning and Research

By WashU Libraries

WashU Libraries have added new electronic resources for students and scholars across the Danforth campus. Here are some details about our newly available and/or expanded databases:

Two new resources from Adam Matthew (AM Digital):

  • AM Research Skills includes videos, essays, case studies, and practice sources that introduce the key methods and approaches for working with historical material from AM primary source databases. This resource includes two modules: Research Skills Foundations and Interrogating Colonial Documents and Narratives.
  • Shakespeare’s Globe Archive—This digitized archive documents over 300 Globe productions from 1997–2016. It includes architectural plans, costume designs, wardrobe notes, musical scores, prompt books, programs, and more.

The Atlantic (1857–present): Coverage includes news, business, the economy, politics, foreign affairs, culture, health, the arts, technology, and science through articles, podcasts, videos, and the flagship magazine. Follow the prompts to sign in with your WUSTL key and create an account. There is also an app available for download.

Bloomsbury Open Access Ebook Collections: The collections include: Environment and Climate Change, Gender and Sexuality, African Studies, and International Development.  Currently, these collections include backlist titles but will consist of frontlist titles beginning in March. These titles can be found in the catalog and Quick Search.

Four new audio/video databases from ProQuest/Alexander Street Press:  

  • Border and Migration Studies Online—Access to primary documents, images, and video covering worldwide border areas, including the U.S. and Mexico, the European Union, Afghanistan, Israel, Turkey, The Congo, Argentina, China, Thailand, and others. Titles are available in Quick Search.
  • Caribbean Studies in Video: The Banyan Archive—An oral and visual history of the Caribbean people’s culture, society, and identity. Also available are videos of music, dance, interviews, cultural programming, and more from the Banyan Archives in Trinidad & Tobago. Titles are available in Quick Search.
  • Latin America in Video (América Latina en Vídeo)—Original language documentaries from filmmakers in Latin America. Materials are presented in their original language with abstracts and indexing in Spanish, Portuguese, and English. Titles are available in Quick Search.
  • Latinx Thought and Culture: the NPR Archive, 1979–1990—Features two radio programs: the weekly Spanish-language Enfoque Nacional (1979–1988) and the Daily English-language Latin File (1988-1990). Searchable digitized audio with transcripts is available. There are no title-level records available for this database.

Two new journal packages from Taylor & Francis:

Social Science and Humanities Library and Science and Technology Library. Journal access for both packages is from 1997 to the present. Journal titles should be available in the catalog and Quick Search later next month.